“A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.”

“It was not, of course, a proper thing to do. But then I have never pretended, nor will ever pretend, that Emily was a proper child. Books are not written about proper children. They would be so dul...”

“I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live”

“It was at that moment, that even though she'd thought it before, Finley realized that Emily was a bloody genius.”